Any artist or collective of artists from all over the World are welcome to participate · Works must be developed after the 1st of January, 2007 with a maximum length of 6 minutes · Each participant can present a maximum of 6 works · The organization can use still frames and/or fragments of the work for its divulgation in the media, always under the Festival framework · Works authorities is responsibility of the participants · The organization is not responsible from the artworks’ content · Shipping expenses will be covered by the participant · The organization does not cover insurances from the artworks exhibition copies presented · The documentation and files submitted will not be returned but destroyed per request · When the participant is a collective, it should have one person designated as responsible for c ommunications with the organization ·

DEADLINE

The call for participations opens on Thursday 1st of July 2010 and closes on Tuesday 7th of September 2010.

SELECTION

The highly determinant factors would be:

– Artistic quality of the proposal and its presentation
– Plastic abilities and research with digital and analogical mediums
– Reference of the proposal to the suggested theme
– If not finished yet, viability of the proposal

JURY

Organization and chief curator will make the first selection of the proposals received. The curator responsible of each section from the Festival would make the final selection. Jury selection would be final.

RESULTS

Final results will be published in BAC! website: http://www.lasanta.org, as well as a nnounced through a VideoArtWorld Bulletin, at the end of September 2010. Once published the organization will contact each artist to inform about the following steps to follow.

* THESE REQUESTS WILL BE ACCEPTED WHEN REGISTERING ANY ARTWORK TO THE OPEN CALL PROPOSAL. PROJECTS THAT DO NOT FOLLOW ALL THESE REQUESTS WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY EXCLUDED FROM THE SELECTION PROCCESS.

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ARTWORK REGISTRATION FORM:

One form must be completed for each artwork presented

NAME AND SURNAME OR PSEUDONYM:
BIRTH YEAR:
CITY AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH:
CURRENT ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
E-MAIL: &ensp ;

ARCOmadrid, the International Contemporary Art Fair, to be held from 16th to 20th February 2011, has already prepared the guidelines for its new project. And to set them in motion, it has formed a new Organising Committee, whose members are: Helga de Alvear (Galería Helga de Alvear); Rebeca Blanchard (Galería Nogueras Blanchard); Luciana Brito (Luciana Brito Galeria); Pedro Cera (Galeria Pedro Cera); Christopher Grimes (Christopher Grimes Gallery); Soledad Lorenzo (Galería Soledad Lorenzo); Guillermo de Osma (Galería Guillermo de Osma); Moisés Pérez de Albeniz (Galería Moisés Pérez de Albeniz); Rosemarie Schwarzwälder (Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder) and Max Wigram (Max Wigram Gallery).

Guidelines for ARCOmadrid_2011 project
The framework for the 30th ARCOmadrid project involves a reduction in the size of the fair and its distribution in two Halls 8 and 10.

A new feature of the project is that the next editions of the SOLO PROJECT section will be centred exclusively on Latin America. Another noteworthy introduction is OPENING, a new programme inviting young galleries from emerging European countries, setting aside a separate space within ARCOmadrid especially for them. Furthermore, another new addition is FOCUS RUSSIA, a programme inviting galleries and projects showcasing the very best of current art production from Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

With regards to the Experts Forum, the format will change to make it more of a meeting place for museums, art centres and biennial directors, curators and galleries but will still bring to Madrid our 100 key curators and museum directors..

ARCOmadrid 30th Anniversary
The International Contemporary Art Fair is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2011; three decades to its credit working wholeheartedly for the promotion of collecting and the development of a network of infrastructures for Contemporary Art. This experience has earned ARCOmadrid a solid reputation as a platform for the art market and a meeting place for gallerists and collectors.

To commemorate the anniversary, the upcoming event is preparing a number of incentives and actions conceived to attract to Madrid all of those art world agents in the art world who have enjoyed ARCOmadrid in the past.